Yarn carrier types for the intarsia knitting technique

With the intarsia knitting technique, the yarn carriers are stopped in the fabric. This parking position leads to problems with the parked yarn carrier during the needle selection in the neighboring color field, i.e. the needles selected for knitting collide with the yarn carrier.
To avoid this collision, the yarn carriers are moved (kicked) out of the color field or parked in its own color field by swiveling the yarn carrier tip.

Yarn Carrier Type

Functioning principle

 

Normal yarn carrier type 1

Yarn carriers cannot swivel

: When using for the intarsia knitting technique, the yarn carriers are moved (kicked). This increases the production time.

Normal yarn carrier type 2 (optional)

Intarsia yarn carrier type 2

Yarn carriers can swivel

: At the end of the knitting row, the yarn carriers swivel into their own color field. The yarn carrier does not swivel at the fabric selvedge.

ADF Yarn Carriers

Yarn carriers are moved autarkic in horizontal and vertical direction

: The yarn carrier is moved upward at the end of the color field and moved back to its color field in an autarkic way.